fund Latin American studies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to Yale to enhance graduate student training and research in Latin American history.
The award will fund fellowship stipends for graduate students, bring distinguished visiting professors from Latin America, sponsor international doctoral research and student presentations at professional conferences in the United States and abroad and help upgrade access to Yale's Latin American Collection at Sterling Memorial Library.
A major portion of the award will be dedicated to student fellowships, allowing the University to provide two graduate students per year with six years of guaranteed financial support. The award will enable Yale to offer some of the most competitive fellowship packages in the nation, according to Gilbert M. Joseph, the Farnam Professor of History and director of the Mellon Fellowship Program at Yale.
A special $90,000 allocation to Sterling Memorial Library will provide improved access to Yale's rich concentration of Latin American research materials. The impact of this endeavor on the study of Latin American history, especially Mexican history, will be long lasting, says Cesar Rodriguez, curator of the Latin American Collection. "There will now be meaningful bibliographic access to large quantities of important research material for scholars and tremendous opportunity for students, especially, to make full use of the materials to explore new areas of study," he explains.
This is the second Mellon grant to Yale in support of Latin American history. In 1996, the Mellon Foundation gave $450,000 to enhance graduate training in this area. With support from that grant, Yale hosted distinguished Latin American scholars, including Cuban historian Manuel Moreno Fraginals and Adolfo Gilly, an expert on 20th-century Mexico and former adviser to Mexico City Mayor Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. The new grant will support three more visitors to Yale through 2004.
The Mellon Foundation has provided similar funding to the Latin American history programs at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. The faculty and students of the three programs meet for a retreat each spring at one of the campuses to discuss new research in the field by senior doctoral students and leading scholars from Latin America.
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